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What is the noun for ontology?

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ontology
  1. (philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
  2. (philosophy) The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
  3. (logic) A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
  4. (computer science, information science) A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Heidegger claims that metaphysics accomplishes itself in ontology, that is in the vision attainable by the human Dasein of what it means to be.”
      “He interprets the Critique of Pure Reason not as epistemology but as ontology.”
      “Woodcock analyses the fictiveness of fairy stories in Spenser's world, basing his approach on recent studies of the ontology of witches.”
ontotheology
  1. The ontology of God and/or the theology of being; a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics, notably Duns Scotus.
ontologist
  1. (philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In response, the ontologist observes that the medium may still have a nature, even if there are no stylistic mandates that follow from it.”
      “Heidegger was called an ontologist because he focused on being as separate from thought in the existential perspective.”
ontologists
  1. plural of ontologist
ontologies
  1. plural of ontology
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Through the ages in East and West, many different ontologies have been put forward.”
      “The semantic web began to make its presence felt in the conference, with sessions on ontologies, web agents, and web technologies.”
      “This includes the development of the ISO19115 marine community profile for metadata and work on developing common vocabularies and ontologies.”
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